Tag Archives: Wordpress

Q&A about Akismet with Pete Davies

Pete Davies is a Business Engineer at Automattic and you’ll probably find him writing articles on the Akismet blog. Akismet is an anti-spam filter for comments. If you visit the website, Akismet is described as “possibly the best way in the world to protect you from web spam”, which from my experience is not far [...]
By | Published: November 21, 2011 | Posted in Wordpress | Also tagged , | Leave a comment

WordPress Developer Tools

During the last 3 years while providing web-design and development solutions to our clients over at Reflection Media, we’re tried our best to optimize our processes and development time by reusing code, creating a database of often used code snipets and constructing generalist plugins when possible. While this didn’t always work out as expected, we’ve [...]
By | Published: November 3, 2011 | Posted in Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged , , , | 10 Comments

What Is WordPress?

Ever now and again the question arises with new clients that aren’t really tech savvy: “What Is WordPress?” What I’m hopping to achieve with this post is to drop the technical jargon for a minute and explain in down to earth words what is WordPress , how can it help you, what is WordPress.com, what’s [...]
By | Published: September 26, 2011 | Posted in Wordpress | Also tagged , , | 1 Comment

WordPress Automatic Updates Based on Folder Name. Is That a Problem?

Automatic Updates are great. They are one of the best if not THE best feature WordPress has. I’ve loved it since it was introduced in 2.7 (2.5 for plugins) and it’s something that really makes my life easier. If I’m not mistaken, WordPress automatic updates for themes and plugins are based on the folder name [...]
By | Published: July 13, 2011 | Posted in plugins, Theme Design, Wordpress | Also tagged | 13 Comments

Profile Builder Pro is WordPress Registration Done Right

Let’s face it. WordPress default registration process is no good. Hard to customize, hard to integrate it in your theme and not that user friendly. Profile Builder Pro is WordPress Registration Done Right Super easy to customize. Chose from the default styling it comes with or just add css to your theme and you’re done. [...]
By | Published: July 6, 2011 | Posted in plugins, Profile Builder, Wordpress | Also tagged , | 11 Comments

wpMail.me – a concise, once weekly free roundup of WordPress news and articles

wpMail.me is a concise, once-weekly free round up of news and articles. It’s main goal is to ease some of the information overload we encounter in our daily computing by providing with a list of curated articles, news and tutorials. Also since it’s once a week you can batch process it all in 1 hour [...]
By | Published: May 23, 2011 | Posted in Wordpress | Also tagged , | 1 Comment

Professional WordPress Plugin Development review

It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed books on this blog and I think it’s about time to start doing that again. And I couldn’t have chosen a better book to start with then “Professional WordPress Plugin Development” written by Brad Williams, Ozh Richard and Justin Tadlock. This is the book I’ve been waiting for [...]
By | Published: March 22, 2011 | Posted in Book Review, General, Recomended Reading, Wordpress | Also tagged , , , | 3 Comments

Cozy Child Theme

This elegant WordPress theme started as a custom project but ended up as a Child Theme for the Thematic Framework. It’s a warm design that makes you feel comfortable.
By | Published: February 22, 2011 | Posted in Recomended Reading, Thematic, Theme Design | Also tagged , | 1 Comment

WordPress pieces of code of the month

I found two pieces of code for WordPress that might come in handy from time to time. Custom Post Types pagination for the homepage It appears there’s a bug in WP 3.0 with the pagination on the homepage for custom post types. When we create an archive page for a custom post type we make [...]
By | Published: September 9, 2010 | Posted in Wordpress | Also tagged , | 2 Comments